Re: Julian Calendar Class ?

From:
"Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanni.dicanio@invalid.it>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:55:34 +0200
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<#55aLZjEIHA.4400@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>
"Z.K." <nospam@nospam.net> ha scritto nel messaggio
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How I use the Julian Calendar Class to convert the current date to Julian
format. Also, I could not seem to find what header file to use in order
to access the class.


I'm sorry, but I don't know of any MFC class of this kind...
Are you referring to System.Globalization.JulianCalendar class?
If so, this is a class exported by the .NET framework, so if you want to use
it from C++, you should use C++/CLI extensions.

I wrote a simple C# code snippet to test this class; converting it to
C++/CLI should not be very hard (e.g. convert Console.WriteLine to
Console::WriteLine, etc.)

<code>
using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Globalization;

namespace CalendarTest
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            JulianCalendar julianCalendar = new JulianCalendar();
            DateTime time = DateTime.Now;

            int day = julianCalendar.GetDayOfMonth(time);
            int month = julianCalendar.GetMonth(time);
            int year = julianCalendar.GetYear(time);

            Console.WriteLine("Julian:");
            Console.WriteLine(" day: " + day);
            Console.WriteLine(" month: " + month);
            Console.WriteLine(" year: " + year);

            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }
}

</code>

Giovanni

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